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Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing You that the New Year be a Messenger of Happiness, Joy, Peace and Prosperity, Fun, Love and Luck. May this New Year bring you Wealth, Longevity and Good Fortune! While rats may not have the most outstanding reputation as animals in the West, the characteristics associated with the Chinese Zodiac sign are very positive. So should this be your Chinese zodiac sign, take heart. You are in good company.  Mozart, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rosa Park, Milton Friedman and Mark Zuckerberg were all born in the Year of the Rat. In Chinese culture, rats are used to symbolize wealth and surplus. Traditionally married couples would pray to these rodents hoping some of their reproductive success would rub off on them. Rats are found all over the world and regarded in the Chinese zodiac as being smart and nimble with plenty of vitality and enterprising spirit. Personality People born in Rat years are said to share some of these characteristi...

Wishing our Chinese friends - and everyone! - a Happy, Lucky New Year! Los Angeles is celebrating the start of the Year of the Fire Monkey with the city's 117th Golden Dragon Parade and Chinese New Year Festival this coming Saturday, February 13th, in Chinatown. The parade will kick off at 1pm on the corner of Hill and Ord Streets and even though the American-Chinese and Chinese residential areas are for the most part located in San Gabriel Valley nowadays, the Chinatown Parade and Festival still attract tens of thousands who line the parade route. If you are in town, this colorful, public event is well worth attending! Meanwhile: Lucky greetings from the Golden Lion and the M Girls. Happy New Year! Best Wishes from Janet, Ted, Kristen, Brynne, Kate, Max and Alisa